Films and
Television Shows
The magazine and newspaper articles in this section focus on the films and television shows that contributed to making the Western an iconic genre of filmmaking.
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"All-Midget Cast Featured in 'Terror of Tiny Town' at Henry's." The Morning Herald, April 8, 1939, p. 15.
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"American Completes Second of Calamity Anne Pictures." The Cinema, January 8, 1913, p. 6.
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"Same Show, 3 Stations, 3 Different Casts." Variety, December 5, 1933, p. 41.
More about The Lone Ranger. |
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"Death Valley Days: U.S. Borax's big gun for 31 years." Broadcasting, July 31, 1961, 23-26.
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"United Artists is not alone in its appreciation of the money-making phenomenon consisting of placing an actor in Western garb on a white horse chasing another actor similarly dressed on a black horse, while the pair exchange bullets, fists and sometimes girls in front of impressive Western mountains and deserts." Motion Picture Daily, October 15, 1946, p. 8.
More about Hopalong Cassidy. |
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"Edgar Buchanan has been signed by William Boyd Productions, Hollywood, to co-star in NBC-TV Hopalong Cassidy, half-hour film series now in production for fall release." Broadcasting, April 18, 1952, p. 97.
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"'Death Valley Days': 33-year radio-tv success story." Broadcasting, February 18, 1963, 24.
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"'Hopalong Cassidy' Series Starts 3rd Big Box-Office Year!" Motion Picture Herald, October 16, 1937, p. 53-55.
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Edward Gallafent. "Not with a Bang: The End of the West in Lonely Are the Brave, The Misfits, and Hud." In Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye, eds. The Book of Westerns. New York: Continuum, 1996.
From Amazon: The Book of Westerns concentrates on the period between 1939 and the present day, looking at the Western from a wide variety of perspectives and providing in-depth critical analysis of many notable movies up to Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994). The coverage includes such celebrated works as George Stevens's Shane with Alan Ladd as the archetypal solitary Western hero, Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar where the combatants in the final gunfight are Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge, and King Vidor's Duel in the Sun with its orgasmic climax when Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones shoot each other down and then claw their way toward a dying embrace. The text, mainly written by film critics and academics associated with Movie magazine, is aimed at the informed filmgoer as well as the film student and is illustrated throughout with stills that capture the flavor of the Western. More about Lonely Are the Brave. More about The Misfits. More about Hud. |
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"How 'Death Valley Days' made the switch to TV," Sponsor, November 3, 1952, 34- 36, 75-79.
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"How TV upped bottler's sales 200%." Sponsor, October 6, 1952, p. 35, 84.
More about Hopalong Cassidy. |
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"'I'll Drill Yeh Like A Sieve,' Squeaks the Terror of Tiny Town." The Amarillo Globe-Times, January 13, 1939, p. 13.
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"'Let's Try It For 13 Weeks'." Radio Showmanship, December 1940, p. 129-132.
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"'Lone Ranger' Co-Op Campaign Pushes Ad Budget Over Million." Film Bulletin, November 28, 1955, 24.
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"Lone Ranger Files Infringement Suit." Broadcasting, June 1, 1939, p. 29.
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"Because Trendle-Campbell originates four live programs on two national networks." The Radio Annual and Television Yearbook, 1952, p.264.
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"Dr. Frederick Stock was conducting the Chicago symphony in the Overture to 'William Tell' in a young people's concert when certain of the kids recognized in it the theme song of The Lone Ranger who has made 'Heigho, Silver!' so popular with our younger generation." Radio Mirror, April 1936, p. 95.
More about The Lone Ranger. |
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"The Mystery of the Lone Ranger." Radio Mirror, September 1938, p. 28-29, 82.
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"New DuPont Film Being Used for 'Hopalong Cassidy' Series." Showmen's Trade Review, November 30, 1940, p. 23.
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"Pre-Holiday Double-Bill Brings Kid Stars and Midget Bad Men to Olympic Screen." Altoona Tribune, December 15, 1938, p.8.
More about The Terror of Tiny Town. |
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"Set Promotional Meet on 'Ranger'." Motion Picture Daily, November 10, 1955, p. 3.
More about The Lone Ranger. |
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"'Small Fry' In Picture." The Pittsburgh Press, June 27, 1938, p. 8.
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"Smallest Movie in Production." The News Journal, June 21, 1938, p. 22.
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"Special Show of Midgets Will be at the Sheboygan." The Sheboygan Press, May 19, 1939, p. 13.
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"Terror of Tiny Town is not on video." Altoona Mirror, July 17, 1999, p. 20.
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"Why, It's The Lone Ranger." Motion Picture Daily, November 21, 1955, p. 8.
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